Sentence examples for splendid portrait from inspiring English sources

They found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty.

The fourth, Alikoshka Goliadkin, is a splendid portrait of the Evil One, both creature and creator of a world laid waste by war and corrupted in the peace that followed.

In the long shadow of the author's splendid portrait of Truman Capote, "Get Happy" recalls James Agee's complaint that "The Clock," a Vincente Minnelli film in which Garland starred, "inspires ingratitude for not being great".

The Arsacid kings of Parthia instituted a Greek style of coinage, as did Bactrian kings, culminating in the splendid portrait decadrachms of Amyntas circa 150 bc, while, even farther to the southeast, Indo-Greek kings struck coins, inscribed in both Greek and Prākrit, to the end of the 2nd century.

Western influence continued in the 15th century, especially under John VIII Palaeologus, whose visit to Italy in 1438 (when Pisanello made his splendid portrait medal) doubtless familiarized him with the designs of the grosso and gros, which were imitated unmistakably on John's silver and from which derived the English groat.

The room also holds what Smith regards as the only two works of art among the portraits: John Donne's is a 19th-century copy of the one in the National Portrait Gallery, but the splendid portrait of Neville Murphy is by Stanley Spencer and Warnock's is by David Hockney.

In their solemn monumentality, The Family of Darius Before Alexander and the canvases executed for the Cuccina family (c. 1572), which contain splendid portraits, are more organic in structure.

The pipe, too, was a favored accessory: Manet, Degas, Jan Toorop and even Picasso in his splendid 1903 "Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto" all parade the artist and his pipe.

In his life, Hujar had few substantial solo shows, attracting little press notice, and only one book, "Portraits in Life and Death" (1976), which unwisely juxtaposed two splendid series: portraits of people in his circle, half of them reclining, and shots of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.

Although 20 handwritten letters from van Gogh to Bernard, a French artist and writer 15 years his junior, are at its center, they are surrounded by nearly two dozen van Gogh painting and drawings, among them a splendid self-portrait.

Painting in oils on board, he produced images that Hogarth would have commended as worthy of being displayed as pub signs: paintings with conventionally romantic titles (Battlements, View of the Ruins, Bend in the Road) displaying a taste for cutting the crap and appreciating, besides Gris - the subject of a splendid manifesto-type portrait in 1963 - the Tintin comic strips.